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Martine McCutcheon: 'This business is hard and really mean'

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Nov 09, 2009

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Martine McCutcheon on trying to survive as an actress – and why the main character in her debut novel is undisguisedly her

'You will be nice to her, won't you?" Martine McCutcheon's somewhat overprotective publicist says to me when our interview ends. They are feeling a bit bruised because actress-turned-singer-turned-first-time-novelist McCutcheon has just been bashed up at an awards ceremony by screenwriter Lynda La Plante for having the temerity to write a book, The Mistress. "Martine's a very sweet lady, but have you read the book?" La Plante told the Daily Mail. "It's a load of c***. She'll have a lot of publicity, but it's the biggest load of rubbish." I guess we can read behind the Mail's ridiculous asterisks.

La Plante's intervention produced a wave of articles attacking celebrity authors – Katie Price (aka Jordan), Kerry Katona, Ulrika Jonsson, and now McCutcheon – who, it was argued, were taking the bread from the mouths of real writers, as if one might pick up The Mistress instead of, say, some finely wrought verse by a manic-depressive northern poet

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